The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-16
Cream and butter should be kept from

part odor.
1t is well to recollect that farm, oc-
cupied as home, cannot be too highly
Pie-plant is delicious and healthful
product, and may be readily raised in
every garden.
Glover fed green, in connection with
skinned milk, makes rapid growth of
pigs at small cost.
A mixture of rosin and lard, one to
two, melted together, will prevent tools
from rusting if rubbed on.
Manure scattered along the rows, soon
as the ground freezes, will eventually
work much good to raspberrles.
An angry butter eater says: "More
butter is ruined by bad cellars and caves
than from any other cause on the farm"
The Poultry Keeper says few drops Of
camphor and water down the throat is a
sure cure for the gapes in chick or hen.
A steer raised annually will provide
the farmer with better quality of meat
than if he depend upon the pork bar
rel.
With hog cough denotes malignant
lung trouble, and mopishuess and inac-
tivity mean that the digestion is not
right.
An oblong figure is the best shape for
a large garden, because such a piece
of land may be more easily worked with
horse.
At this season, when you are feeding
corn to hogs, remember that the more
comfortable the hogs are housed the less
corn will be required.
If onions are frozen in winter, keep
them from thawing until spring, if pos
sible. A dry oaion contains at least
eighty per cent. of water
Throw your soapsuds on the manure
heap, and prevent tirefanging and the es-
care of volatile matter and hasten chem
ical changes and decomposition.
A pullet which is forced will lay very
small eggs for a while, and when she
ceases in order to nest, she will not be-
gin again as often as matured hen.
Some advise caution against allowing
work horses and milk cows to drink of
ice. cold water, but take the chill off be-
fore the animals are suffered to sip it.
Feed dairy stock we'll, for you are re-
paid by the milk, the growth of the
stock and the value of the manure, which
last often equals the first cost of the
food.
Duck culture is recommended on sew
eral accounts, as more profitable than
that of chickens. They require less care,
grow more rapidly and sell at better
prices.
It is well stated that whether prices be
up or down, prime mutton sheep are al
ways salable, and at good prices. The
markets are never supplied with choice
mutton.
Spinach is easily grown and very rel
ishable. It might have been sown last
fall and lightly mulched; but it may now
be sown in the spring so soon as the
ground is fit.
Fattening hogs can be fed too much,
as we'll as not enough. Feed regularly
and give no more than they will eat
readily. Pe sure to give them pure,
fresh water.
A writer in Rural Meu Yorker says:
No machine can be made to cut so care
fully that all grain may be saved. The
hens find this waste grain much easier
than man can.
A gardener says the very best mulch
for tender garden plants is forest leaves:
besides, they are worth all the cost of
gathering and drawing for their benefi-
cial action on the soil.
The most economical food for carp is
grain, corn, rye or poor wheat. Throw
the grain into the water and it will soon
become soft. Carp need to be fed in
winter if they are expected to grow.
\ butcher says, when the flesh on a
leg of mutton shrinks back in cooking,
letting the end of the bone stick out, it
is O sure sign that the animal was not
properly fed. Shrinking meat is too full
of water.
Make bins in the barn, and pack root
crops in dry earth or sand. Endeavor to
avoid all the moisture possible. If your
barn is not we'll sheltered, storing root
croas in mounds is the next best way,
but inconvenient when the ground is
frozen.
The more open and porous the soil, the
more freely air can penetrate it and reach
manure buried in it, the sooner will the
latter decompose and become available.
Hence, quicker results may be expected
from using unfermented manure on light
sandy lands than on close clay lands,
Sheep in winter need but little care.
Good hay and few roots each day,
keeping them dry and giving them the
run of the field, is about all they need.
At night they should be well housed,
always kept as dry as possible. Their
wool will hold a heavy weight of snow
or water. Sheep also need good drink
ing water.
In the absence of meat, potatoes boiled
in milk, where there is plenty Of the lat
ter, is an admirable preparation for feed
ing to young, growing chicks. A mix-
ture of one third corn meal and wheat
bran with the above will make the young
chicks grow wonderfully if given fresh
every day. The best feed for setting
hens is plenty of good, sound whole corn.
They should have plenty of fresh water
to drink.
One of the most important values of
fertilizers is their action on quick grow
ing crops. Strawberries, for example,
must gather most of their food in few
weeks, and in that time must have it in
superabundance in most avsilable form.
nrooo an tho other hand takrs as MANY